They have obviously managed peace, security and established the necessary institutions of a modern state and the international community have no choice but to accept their efforts.

When we express ourselves in this way we also have to let it go, even though we don't know if people will interpret it correctly or accept our efforts.

(Apparently the sister accepts his efforts as genuine; in the film's final scene she is still with Barlow.)

Commissioner Thomas Sobol, who did not accept a committee's recent efforts to design a new social studies curriculum, has announced that he will resign at the end of the year.

By refusing to accept Anna's honest efforts to please him, he had made himself better than her.

Despite being suspicious, she cautiously accepts his efforts, though informs Gibbs immediately, who tells Vance.

In the meantime, he has plenty to keep him busy, plenty of people who need his help, plenty of organizations delighted to accept his efforts.

Armacost was also, like most successful salesmen, a man people liked, accepting both his natural intensity and his efforts at bonhomie.

By contrast, if divorce required mutual consent, your spouse could accept your efforts to make him or her happy without feeling a strong need to reciprocate.

They accepted my efforts without comment and without notice, but at least I felt better about it.